| Health Management & Policy |
HMP 400 - Exploring Health: Doing Well by Doing Good
Credits:
2.00
Acquaints students to the administrative roles, functions,
settings, and professional expectations of health management
professionals. Provides an overview of health care
organizations and services. Students visit selected health
care organizations and talk with professionals.
HMP 401 - United States Health Care Systems
Credits:
4.00
Nature and functions of health care services and health
professionals; impact of social, political, economic,
ethical, professional, legal, and technological forces on
health care systems. Current health policy issues.
HMP 401H - Honors/United States Health Care Systems
Credits:
4.00
See description for HMP 401. Writing intensive.
HMP 401W - United States Health Care Systems
Credits:
4.00
See description for HMP 401. Writing intensive.
HMP 402 - Health Management and Policy Critical Issues
Credits:
4.00
The roles, functions, settings, and professional
expectations of Health Management Professionals. The course
includes an exploration of key topic areas of health
management and policy, including financing the health care
system, the public health system, and function, the
political process, as well as current areas of interest.
Prereq: HMP 401 major or permission.
Co-requisites:
HMP 430 - Alternative Medicine and Health
Credits:
4.00
An overview of several systems of medicine and health that
employ a framework different from industrialized Western
medicine for understanding the nature and causes of disease
and approaches to treatment. To better understand the
validity or legitimacy of alternative systems, we will also
examine current research on the outcomes, effectiveness and
efficacy of the various systems.
HMP 444 - From Frankenstein to Dolly, and Beyond
Credits:
4.00
(Also listed as MICR 444.)
HMP 501 - Epidemiology and Community Medicine
Credits:
4.00
The distribution and determinants of disease, illness, and
health in the community. Community health and illness
measures, health status, and source of data. Development of
hypotheses and study designs to reduce community health
problems using epidemiological reasoning, methods, and
analyses. Special fee. Lab.
HMP 505 - Public Health: History and Practice
Credits:
4.00
The main purpose of this course is to blend a broad
overview of the historical development of public health with
important areas of contemporary public health practice. The
course traces the history and practices of public health
from classical times, through the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, and European Enlightenment. Special
emphasis is placed on the historical evolution, development,
and future of public health in the United States. The latter
includes the organization of public health in the U.S., its
major functions and practices, its infrastructure, its
programs and services, and its future challenges.
HMP 569 - Human Behavior and the Public Health
Credits:
4.00
Provides a grounding in fundamental concepts of the
behavioral sciences as they illuminate public health.
Individual and community responses to prevention,
identification of symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, chronic
ailments, and rehabilitation are discussed. In each of these
areas, the course explores the interaction between
community, family, patient, and health care provider.
HMP 600 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
A) Hospital Management; B) Long-term Care Management;
C) Ambulatory Care Management; D) Clinical Services
Management; E) Home Care Management; F) Mental Health
Management; G-Z) Interdisciplinary. May repeat, but may not
duplicate subject areas. Prereq: junior major or
permission.
HMP 621 - Pre-practicum Seminar
Credits:
2.00
Preparation for field practicum experience, orientation to
experiential learning and competency development. Prereq:
major.
HMP 622 - Field Practicum
Credits:
1.00
Experiential learning in a health care organization;
application of theories to practice. Planned learning
objectives are accomplished through three distinct
components. Supervision by agency personnel. Prereq:
junior major; permission. Cr/F.
622A, Field Practicum Organizational Analysis: analysis of
assigned health care agency, from external and internal
viewpoints. Coreq: 622B; 622C. Cr/F.
622B, Field Practicum Management Skills Development:
development of the basic quantitative and interpersonal
skills required for a health services manager. Coreq: 622A;
622C. Cr/F.
622C, Field Practicum Project Analysis: demonstration of
knowledge and analysis of specific problem-solving skills
required during internship. Coreq: 622A; 622B. Credit/Fail.
HMP 622A - Field Practicum in Organizational Analysis
Credits:
1.00
See description for HMP 622. Cr/F.
HMP 622B - Field Practicum in Management Skills Development
Credits:
1.00
See description for HMP 622. Cr/F.
HMP 622C - Field Practicum in Project Analysis
Credits:
1.00
See description for HMP 622. Cr/F.
HMP 624 - Post Practicum Seminar
Credits:
2.00
Summary and conclusion from field practicum
experience. Individual analysis and panel discussions to
include: site assessment, project description and
methodologies employed, critique of individual skills and
knowledge base in relation to internship.
HMP 630 - Health Issues Seminar I
Credits:
1.00
Discussion of current issues in the field of health
management, health policy and public health. Prereq:
major or permission.
HMP 631 - Health Issues Seminar II
Credits:
1.00
Discussion of current issues in the fields of health
management, health policy and public health. Prereq: major
or permission.
HMP 642 - Health Economics
Credits:
4.00
Theoretical and empirical analysis of the U.S. health care
delivery sector. Topics include health insurance markets and
their effects on patients demand, uninsured populations and
their access to health care services, breakdowns in the
principal/agent relationship between patients and providers,
competition in the medical sector, technology,
pharmaceuticals and the scope and effect of government
involvement in the delivery of health care. Prereq: ECON
402. (Also listed as ECON 642.)
HMP 710 - Financial Management for Clinicians
Credits:
4.00
Basics of health care financial management and cost
accounting. Includes cost concepts and product costing,
budgeting, and variance analysis with emphasis at the
departmental level. Contains basic accounting principles:
use of ratio analysis to examine balance sheets and revenue
and expense statements. Explores capital project analysis
and health care reimbursement. Prereq: HMP 401 or
equivalent; permission.
HMP 711 - Health Systems Research I
Credits:
4.00
This course introduces students to intermediate techniques
for data manipulation and analysis for the health care
field. The course also introduces methods for survey
research and large data set manipulation and analysis. There
will be a lab section utilizing a statistical software
package where students will perform tasks from a large
national data set. Prereq: introduction to statistics.
Special fee.
HMP 712 - Health Systems Research II
Credits:
4.00
This course introduces students to decision science and
applies decision making to health systems. It teaches the
techniques of health care management, epidemiological
analysis, and policy analysis as they relate to the decision
making process. There will be a lab section with applied
exercises. Prereq: HMP 711. Lab. Special fee.
HMP 721 - Managing Health Care Organizations
Credits:
4.00
Organizational characteristics of ambulatory, acute, and
long-term care facilities. Management issues and strategies
involving governance, clinical services, human and fiscal
resources, and community-based services. Prereq: major or
permission.
HMP 723 - Health Planning
Credits:
4.00
Theoretical and historical foundations of health planning;
the relationship of health planning and regulation; the
application of planning methods; and the utilization of
strategic planning and its relationships to marketing.
Prereq: major or permission. Special fee.
HMP 730 - Managed Care
Credits:
4.00
This course provides an overview of managed care and
includes such topics as: 1) The types of managed care
organizations and their historical development; 2) The
health care delivery system and reimbursement; 3) Medical
management; 4) Operational management in managed care;
5) Managed care in the public sector; and 6) Regulation and
managed care.
HMP 734 - Health Law
Credits:
4.00
Concepts and principles of law as these affect medical and
administrative decision making in health care institutions
and the ability to discern issues that warrant advice and/or
assistance of legal counsel. Topics covered include
corporations and antitrust, property law, patients' rights
under law, and malpractice. Prereq: major or permission.
HMP 740 - Health Care Financial Management
Credits:
4.00
Techniques, principles, and practices of managing fiscal
aspects of health care organizations. Exploration of
concepts and techniques associated with variance analysis,
cost allocation, management of working capital, and capital
decision analysis. Analysis of the impact of reimbursement
on health care organizations. Lab. Special fee.
HMP 742 - Strategic Management for Health Care Organizations
Credits:
4.00
Application of managerial methods involving financial,
marketing, and operational analysis to health management.
Case studies. Prereq: major or permission; HMP 740. Lab.
Special fee.
HMP 744 - Ethical Issues in Health Management and Medicine
Credits:
4.00
Ethical theories and decision-making models; patients'
rights and professional responsibilities; social justice and
resource allocation; critical issues facing clinicians,
managers, and health policy makers; managerial versus
medical care conflicts. Prereq: major or permission. Writing
intensive.
HMP 746 - Health Policy
Credits:
4.00
Analysis of the public policy process, the development of
health policies in the United States, and discussion of
specific health policy issues. Prereq: major or permission.
HMP 748 - Health Policy Analysis
Credits:
4.00
Public policy outputs analyzed for effectiveness,
efficiency, and equity, focusing on public policies in the
United States. Prereq: major or permission. Lab. Special
fee.
HMP #750 - Comparative Health Care Systems
Credits:
4.00
Analysis and comparison of world health problems and
delivery systems using nations with different cultures,
political and economic systems, and stages of economic
development. Methods for developing and evaluating health
care systems.
HMP 755 - Long Term Care Management and Policy
Credits:
4.00
Analyzes significant contemporary management and public
policy issues associated with the aging population and the
continuum of long-term care in the United States. Emphasis
on costs associated with and approaches to financing,
accessibility, delivery, and quality of home-based,
community-based, and institution-based health care services.
Prereq: major or permission.
HMP 796 - Independent Study
Credits:
2.00 to 4.00
In-depth study with faculty supervision. Prereq: permission
of major adviser and faculty in the area concerned.
HMP 798H - Honors Project/Research Design
Credits:
2.00
Examines selected research designs and methods used in
health services research/program evaluation. Establishes
theoretical and methodological foundation for
honors-in-major research project to be conducted during the
subsequent semester under a faculty member's supervision.
Prereq: senior honors-in-major status and permission.
HMP 799H - Honors Project/Research
Credits:
4.00
In-depth research project (conducting and analysis) under
supervision of faculty member. Includes scholarly
presentation of findings to faculty and other interested
parties and preparation of manuscript suitable for
publication in peer-viewed journal. Prereq: HMP 798H and
permission.